Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-18
PRODUCE.
Wheeling

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We report a fair market on butter and
poultry, while tine receipts OF eggs are
heavy and prices are on i decline. Apples
are also weak on account Of the warm
weather.
Green stuff is selling up pretty
close TO the supply and prices have changed
but in a few instances since our
last report. Good stock is sold up pretty.
close to the supply, but ordinary
stuff hangs on and il slow selling.
The prices quoted below are wholesale fig
ures aud all green stuff Is home raised. The
quotations are changed on Tuesdays and
| Fridays. but the market is liable to iuc-
t~uatiOns between those days.
Butter-Demand brisk; choice creamery
2Hi22c; country choice 22a25c; good u
try l4a1Sc; common 5a6c; supply fair.
Beans-New handpicked navy 81 pal 40
per bushel; old ST. 1Gal 10; demand for
old slow, for new good.
Dried Fruit-New ~evapOrated pared
peaches 30a35c; impaired do l5al7c; rasp-
berries 20a22c; blackberries 9alUc;new sun
dried apples, quartered, &c, sliced 4a5c;
PEACHES, new halves, 4!a5!c; do quarters 4
arc; do pared 15alSc;pitted cherries l!ll3c;
new eyapOrated apples lOal2c. Market on
dried fruit nominal; demand moderate.
Cheese-Sales in a jObbing way of prime
mild Ohio factory ut &c; New York la
! l5c; Sweitzer l1at2c; Limberger 9alOc.
.Egps-Strictly fresh stock ut l4al5C per
doz. supply light and demand good ;pickled
l9a22c.
Feathers Choice, 50L55c, in original
packages; 4a5c more in small lots.
HOney-ChOice white clover, l3al4c;
choice buckwheat, 12al4c.
Potatoes-ChOice new home raised, 40 to
soc per bushcl; demand light; supply good.
P~Oultry-LiYe chickens, old 81 5Oa2 10
per dozen; dressed chickens 3 to &c per
pound; turkeys, live 7aSc, dressed 9allc
per pound; demand good, supply fair;
ducks, live 81 O0a3 Oh per dOz.; dressed,
1Oal2c; dressed geese, Case per pound.
Rags-Stcady at Halle for white mixed
cotton; 1a!3e for all wool and Halle for
mixed.
Seeds-ClOver, per busheI, s. OOa5 80;
timothy, per bushel, s. l5a2 30. Market
active.
Lard-Country prime, 5la6c; demand
fair.
Apples-Green, per Dbl. choice new,
81 75a2 %; common 81 so per barrel;
demand good; supply light.
Buckwheat Fourier pound 2ia23c.
Onions-New, 75ca$1 90 per bushel; good
demand; supply light.
Cabbage-Per hundred $3a5; demand
good, supply light. ,
Sweet potatOes-$2 so to- IS per barrel
Jerseys, s. 90 to 8 so; supply light; de,
mand good.
Cranberries-S2 rs to So 90 per bushel
crate; good demand, supply good.
Nuts-Shellbark hickory nuts per busheI
1al %: waln uts 25a35c.
Parsuips-$l 25a1 80 per barrel.
Turnips-Sl per barrel.
:, New York.
NEW YORK, February 17.-Flour-
Heavy; Receipts 1921 barrels and
sacks; exports L., 507 barrels, and ll,32t
sacks; sales Is. 500 barrels. Wheat-SpOt
IaSc higher, with fair export inquiry, clos
ing firm; options opened firm aud adj
yanced IaIc, afterwards declined Gage.
closing. however, stronger; receipts 40, l5C
bushels; exports 1889 bushels; sales
4, 5g2, 900 bushels futures and 3l2,OOC
bushels spot; No. = Chicago 81 1916; No,
| hard 95}c; ungraded red S9a93{c; No,
3 red SSc; No. | red 924c; No. | white Gle
extra red pole; No. . rel March S~9saS9ic,
closing ut S9Jc; April 9Osa9O;c, closing al
9Oic; May 9l!a9lSc, closing at 9l4c
June 9lsa92lc, closing at 9l5c; July
~92fa93lc, closing ut 93tc; August 93sa
93sc, closing at 93!c; September Si!a
9lSc, closing at 9ilc; December ~97laSStc
+ closing at gSIc. Corn-Spot lots a shade
lower and moderately active; options firm
receipts "a, 800 bushels; exports ism
bushels; sales 9Si, 900 bushels futures anC
100, OOO bushels spot; ungraded 44alS@c
steamer 4SlaiSlc; No. = February 4Stc
March 4sIc; NAV 4Ssai9 Lice, closing n
AGE; June I9Ia49 5-lGc, closing ut 494c
Oats-Lcss active and rather easier OF
spot: receipts 0,4OO bushels; exports
, 800 bushels; mixed western 314a3Ic
white do 3Sa42C. lIay-Quiet. Hops
II Dull and heavy. COiiee-Fair; Rio dull q
lie: options lower and active; sales 40,
600 hays; February II 15al2. 3Oe; Marcl
II IOal2. zoe; April 12.05al2l5c; May ant
June 12.O5a12. zoe; July l2O5al2.l5c
August and September 12.O5al2 2Oci DC
tober and November Il. l5al2. 2Oc; Pecem
her l 2.2Oc. Sugar-Qiuet; fair to good
refining at 4 9-l6a4 1l-l6c; refined dull
standard A > SID. confectioners' \ D 9-l6s
5sc; cutlOaf and crushed 6sc; powdered
5!a6fc. Molasses-Dull. Rice-Steady
Petroleum-Steady; United closed at oil c
Tallow-Dun; easier at 1 3-lGa4le. Rosir
STEADY at 81 coal 074c. T~urpentine-
Dull al 39c. POrk-Steady and more &C
tive. Cut Meats-Firm; picked ham:
Halle; do. bellies 74c, Lard-aas
points lower aud less active; western
steam spot s. Is; March s. l3a7 ls
April s 2Oa7 %; May 81 26aa7 30; june
81 35a7 81. Butter-Quiet and firm fol
choice grades; Western 12a26c; Elgir
creamery 2Ta3Sc. Cheese-Firm. but
quiet. Eggs-Quiet and generally steady
receipts 1865 packages; western fresf
1Sc. Copper-Dull:
Chicago.
CHICAGo, February 1.-THE wheat
market was moderately active and stronger
to-day. The offerings were free and price
fell Off from 79c to 75lc, but on report fol
a good export movement rose to 79ia79sc
and closed for the day at outside figures
r Corn dull and featureless. Oats steady
Provisions 4 shade lower at the opening
but closed with an advance of 2Oa25c.